A FBI background check on Hegseth, Kavanaugh style

[berg80]

OH NOOOOOO!!! Pete was on Trump's favorite channel. No wonder you loons have your panties in a bunch.

Focus trumples, focus. Why hasn't trump allowed for a thorough background check of Hegseth just as he did with Schlitz Kavanaugh?

 

[The Duke]

If trumples want the military to be fixed, whatever that means, then you should support the nomination of a candidate with the skills to make reforms competently. Hegseth has none of those skills.

You are not qualified to judge that, boy.

 

[Hum Dinger]

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Some people couldn't give a shit about other people's sexuality, but we do care about people's qualifications for their jobs.

If the two people on the right are qualified for their jobs, I couldn't care less if they wear dresses or what their sexuality is.

I realize they do not fit you adolescent Rambo fantasies of what a military person should look like.

But your apparent obsession with them proves that they do fit another type of your fantasies!

 

[theHawk]

Democrats Say F.B.I. Did Not Interview Critical Witnesses About Pete Hegseth​

Senate Democrats on Monday said that an F.B.I. background check on Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, omitted key details on major allegations against him, in part because it did not include interviews with critical witnesses.

One missed opportunity came when the bureau did not interview one of Mr. Hegseth’s ex-wives before its findings were presented to senators last week, according to people familiar with the bureau’s investigation.

“My understanding is that some of them would like to be contacted by the F.B.I. investigative team, or the vetters, and they have not been talked to,” Ms. Duckworth added in the MSNBC interview.

A spokeswoman for the F.B.I. declined to comment.

Mr. Trump's transition team commissioned the F.B.I. background check on Mr. Hegseth last month after initially floating the idea of hiring private contractors to look into the president-elect’s cabinet picks. As the client, presidential transition teams are traditionally able to set the parameters for background checks into cabinet picks, and potentially dictate which witnesses are interviewed and what questions are asked. The transition team’s directions to the F.B.I. for its investigation of Mr. Hegseth are unknown.

Democrats Say F.B.I. Did Not Interview Critical Witnesses About Pete Hegseth

The bureau did not interview an ex-wife of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for defense secretary before the findings on his background check were presented to senators.

www.nytimes.com

Just like.........

Report says Trump White House obstructed FBI probe into allegations against Kavanaugh​

Report says Trump White House obstructed FBI probe into allegations against Kavanaugh

The Senate report is a damning rebuke to Trump’s claim he gave the FBI “free rein” to investigate sexual misconduct allegations against Brett Kavanaugh.

www.msnbc.com

For her part, Sen. Duckworth has noted Dems were not given the same access to Hegseth as Repubs prior to today's hearing.

Duckworth: Trump’s Pentagon pick has less experience than Applebee’s manager​

Duckworth held the press call to lay out her concerns about Trump’s nominee, insisting that her objections to Hegseth aren’t motivated by politics but by what his confirmation would mean for national security.

She complained that Sen. Jack Reed (R.I.), the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, will likely be the only Senate Democrat who will meet with Hegseth before his hearing.
Duckworth also noted that rank-and-file Democrats on the Armed Services panel may not have a chance to fully review the FBI background check on the nominee, an investigation Democrats believe will be critical to assess a sexual assault allegation from 2017 and alleged mismanagement of Concerned Veterans for America (CVA), an advocacy group.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5079732-trump-hegseth-pentagon-duckworth/

Can anyone think of a reason why trump's transition team would limit the scope of Hegseth's background check as his WH limited the scope of Kavanaugh's? Are they trying to hide his lack of qualifications for the job, his heavy drinking, his abuse of women, his mismanagement of funds for the partisan vets organizations he ran, the reasons he was let go by them, or his bizarre statements on everything from women to religion?

Translation: Even Biden’s thugs in the FBI couldn’t find anything on him.

 

[Marener]

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Sam Brinton and Rachel Levine were actually pretty qualified for the positions they took. Note that Sam Brinton was deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition secretary Rachel Levin was an assistant secretary of health. Neither of these positions are nearly as consequential as the Secretary of Defense, and both had relevant experience in these fields.

 

[Oddball]

It’s Not That Complicated: Hegseth Was On Trump’s Favorite Channel​

We’re hearing a lot about Hegseth’s supposedly sterling qualities that explain Trump’s choice.
Let’s be clear about this: Hegseth is a conventionally attractive Fox News host. Trump saw him on TV. This isn’t an out-of-the-box choice to shake up the Pentagon. Trump is picking loyalists straight from “central casting.”

The Once Critically Endangered Pete Hegseth Goes Before Committee

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s nominee for Defense Secretary, goes before the Senate...

talkingpointsmemo.com

TPM...ROFLMFAO!!

 

[Hum Dinger]

You are not qualified to judge that, boy.

It's Hegseth's responsibility to prove that he is qualified, not ours to prove that he is not qualified.

Same goes to every nomination.

 

[theHawk]

Sure. That's why he wants to gut all government positions and replace them with blind loyalists, why he wants to destroy the press, why he wants to bring down the justice and judicial systems.

He doesn't want to be held accountable.

The world has seen it before, and it's all playing out again, in real time, right in front of us.

Sure Mac. We need people like Liz Cheney who lead political witch hunts and also conceal evidence and destroy evidence.

 

[jc456]

Well, not only do we have to hold the felonious sexual abuser incoming President to lower standards across the board, we have to do the same for anyone he picks for critical positions.

That's just where we are now.

there's a known pedophile in office right now!

 

[Luckyone]

So you make the claim that he's unqualified but are unable to articulate what qualifications are required.

Have you been listening to the confirmation? I have and what Jack Reed has stated (about Hegseth) has been 100% informational (no biased opinion) and shows that Hegseth is totally unqualified for the job. Hegseth's responses have been all biased and without actually addressing the issues.

 

[Oddball]

Translation: Even Biden’s thugs in the FBI couldn’t find anything on him.

Pedo Peter's thugs have been entirely cut out of the process....That's why the permanent bureaucratic swamp scum and their dutiful ass swabs like Stalinburg are all butthurt.

 

[berg80]

Hegseth's defense is taking on a trumpian tone. They're saying there’s been a “coordinated smear campaign in the media.”

Does that include Pete's mom? She wrote in an email to him that there are “many” women that he has “abused in some way.”

 

[berg80]

there's a known pedophile in office right now!

Not just that, he ate babies with his pizza!!!!!!!!

 

[jc456]

It's Hegseth's responsibility to prove that he is qualified, not ours to prove that he is not qualified.

Same goes to every nomination.

No, it's the senate's job to ask questions and hear his answers to those questions, no matter what they are. There are no qualifications needed for any of the jobs being filled. Go look it up! I posted it back after he was put up by Trump.

 

[Rawley]

Hegseth is not qualified for the job. Full stop.

We see you stamping your feet every time you chant that. LOL

 

[SeaMajor7]

It's Hegseth's responsibility to prove that he is qualified, not ours to prove that he is not qualified.

Same goes to every nomination.

Good, then shut the fuck up.

 

[Polishprince]

Hmmm, imagine that. You don't seem to have any knowledge of Pete's background...at all.

Hegseth is a decorated military combat veteran. But the problem the left has with them is that he will call for accountability from the current brass. And they can't have that.

 

[jc456]

Not just that, he ate babies with his pizza!!!!!!!!

Details I don't have, post it.

 

[Oddball]

Have you been listening to the confirmation? I have and what Jack Reed has stated (about Hegseth) has been 100% informational (no biased opinion) and shows that Hegseth is totally unqualified for the job. Hegseth's responses have been all biased and without actually addressing the issues.

I am listening, and all the smears against Hegselth are anonymous and unsourced....Not one accuser has come forth and revealed themselves.

At least the scum trying to burn Kavanaugh down came up with Blasey Ford and Sweatnick.

 

[Polishprince]

Hmmm, imagine that. You don't seem to have any knowledge of Pete's background...at all.

Hegseth is a decorated military combat veteran. But the problem the left has with them is that he will call for accountability from the current brass. And they can't have that.